A group of African women at a specific period in Southern Africa’s history find their family life under pressure from capitalist modernity and apartheid. This is a deeply humane, sympathetic and generous book on the one hand but is unflinching in its honesty. Ndebele represents a rare breed of writer able to combine political awareness with a sensitivity towards context, language and characterization. The result is a gift offering to the present. This is one of the best books about women’s sacrifices and contributions to the struggle against apartheid.

The Cry of Winnie Mandela

Literature & Fiction

Ndebele, Njabulo S.

United States

Ayebia Clarke Publishing

The Legacy of Efua Sutherland is one of the most important books published by Ayebia. The book reaffirms the importance of the critical connections this extraordinary Ghanaian woman made between Africa and its Diasporas, reflecting her deep passion for Pan African and specifically Ghanaian cultural values, as well as theatrical cultures around the world. This book is an important read for anyone interested in African cultural values in an international context.

The Legay of Efua Sutherland: Pan African Cultural Activism

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

This much-awaited second novel, following Nkosi's awardwinning Mating Birds, is a tour de force of crafted writing. Nkosi takes us to mansions and mountain hideouts, where we meet a dazzling variety of characters: the serene Princess Madi, Kristina the small-town temptress and Joe Blane, the sinister Central Committee man. Switching from comedy to sensitive observation to action and back, there are no dull patches in this complex plot. In Underground People 'the struggle' is the story. With its double-dealing operatives and political shenanigans, Underground People brings elements of a political thriller into a sophisticated human drama - a sparkling new addition to South African writing on the apartheid era.

Underground People

Literary

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the ‘nervousness’ of the ‘postcolonial’ conditions that bedevil us still. In Tambu and the women of her family, we African women see ourselves, whether at home or displaced, doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity, bewilderment and grace.

Nervous Conditions [Import]

Tsitsi Dangarembga

This new edition gives an insight into Ken Saro-Wiwa’s ideology, his own record of arrest in July 1993 and imprisonment, the story of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), the struggle against the multinational Shell, the Nigerian military dictatorship, his criticisms and questioning of a corrupt regime which eventually led to his execution with eight others on 10 November 1995 and includes ‘A Letter to my Father’ by Ken Wiwa Jnr. If you want to know why Saro-Wiwa was hanged, read this book!

A Month and A Day & Letters

Saro-Wiwa, Ken

Leaders & Notable People

This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book aimed at debunking the myth about African women as impoverished victims. The stories deal with challenging themes representing some of the most complex love stories ever published from Africa, ranging from labour pains to burials, teenagers to octogenarians, race-fraught and same-sex relationships, the human heart is out there, bold bleeding and occasionally triumphant. Crafted by a stellar cast of authors including El Saadawi, Adichie, Atta, Baingana, Oyeyemi, Manyika, Aboulela, wa Goro, Badoe, Magona, Tadjo, Krog, Ogundipe, de Nyeko et al. A much welcomed addition to African literature. With contributions from 21 African women writers as follows: From Sudan Leila Aboulela From Egypt Nawal El Saadawi From Cote d’Ivoire Véronique Tadjo From Ghana Yaba Badoe From Nigeria Tomi Adeaga, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Rounke Coker, Anthonia C Kalu, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Promise Ogochukwu, Molara Ogundipe, Helen Oyeyemi and Chika Unigwe. From Kenya Wangui wa Goro From South Africa Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona. From Uganda Monica Arac de Nyeko, Doreen Baingana and Mildred Kiconco Barya From Zimbabwe Blessing Musariri

African Love Stories: An Anthology

A sequel to Nervous Conditions, this is a powerful and engaging story about one young woman’s quest to redefine the personal and political forces that threaten to engulf her. As its title suggests, this is also a book about denial and unfulfilled expectations and about the theft of the self that remains one of colonialism’s most pernicious legacies. The novel disrupts any comfortable sense of closure to the dilemmas of colonial modernity explored in Nervous Conditions and as such is a fitting sequel.

The Book of Not

Dangarembga, Tsiti

This collection of essays from eight of the most respected academics in the field brings together a number of critical perspectives to focus on the signal work of a 21st century Ghanaian writer. Amma Darko is recognized in these interdisciplinary critiques as a significant writer whose storytelling talent documents the continent s globalization pains. What is revealed is a writer who knows how to tell a good story yet confident enough in her art to deliver a stinging and unflinching criticism of what Ghana has become.

Broadening the Horizon: Critical Introductions to Amma Darko

Essays & Correspondence

This biography of President John Agyekum Kufuor traces his journey and rise to power in 2000 as the first democratically elected president for the conservative New Patriotic Party (NPP) in nearly 40 years and examines his aspirations and contributions to restoring democracy and continuing Ghana’s development history. This book is an important addition to Ghana’s political literature and Africa’s political and economic history.

Between Faith and History: A Biography of J.A. Kufuor

Agyeman-Duah, Ivor

Historical

This book is a first in combining essays from women about their African fathers and vice versa and will not only provide a significant set of insights into the relationship between fathers and daughters but also explore gaps in the perception of African Fatherhood. The book opens a window on this often, vexing relationship and draws on African experiences that reflect the complexities and nuances of a relationship that is at once universal as it is local. Contributors include prominent African scholars, writers and critics such as Abiola Irele, Simon Gikandi, Harry Garuba, Helon Habila, Leila Aboulela, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Abena Busia et al.

Fathers & Daughters: An Anthology of Exploration

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